I discovered that, contrary to the rule’s claim, only 43% of the words actually followed the rule, and a stunning 57% of the words did not! When I analyzed the top 2,000 words, the percentage shifted even further-only 36% of the words followed the rule, and 64% did not.
To make this easy, just write the word in any of the Indian language directly as pronounced.To test the rule, I took the 1,000 most common words and analyzed them by applying the rule to each one. The concept of the usage of “a” and “an” is little difficult to understand through English.īut, if you know any one of the Indian based language then it is very easy to understand this concept of vowels in English. O When you use an abbreviation as a word then O Examples: FBI, HRM, HTML, LML, MOU, NGO, RDA, SC, O For Illustration: “an FBI officer”, “an NGO”, ………. Because all these letters having "euh" as the initial sound when it is spelled separately. > whenever the consonants f, h, l, m, n, r, s and x comes as the first letter of an Abbreviation then that Abbreviation will have the word “an” before it. Examples: Heir, heiress, heirloom, honest, honesty, honor, honorable, hour, hourly, etc. Illustration: (Half an hour, be there in an hour) > For example: in the word hour the, the first character "h" is silent, and the sound is initiating from the vowel "o", so the word ‘hour’ will have “an” as the prefix. When the first character of the word is consonant and is silent, then it takes the second character as the the initial sound and when such sound is initiated from a vowel then that word will be having the word “an” as the prefix. Words begin with consonant but use the word ‘an’ before it:įor this issue there are three situations:ġ. Utilitarian, utility, uvula, uvular, etc.Ģ. US-ian, using, usufruct, usufruction, usufructuary, utensil, uterus, utile, Uranium, urinal, urinalysis, urine, uro, usability, usable, usage, use, user, Universal, universalism, Universalism, universe, university, univocal, Unix, Unary, uni, unicorn, uniform, union, unique, unit, unite, unity, univalent, So it is "a Euro" notĮucalyptus, euglena, eukaryote ,eulachon,Įulogy, eureka, euro, Euro-American, European bison, ewe, one, Ukrainian, "E" is silent, and it takes the second letter as the initial sound "yoo", which is not a vowel sound.
For example: in the word Euro the first letter And, if the second letter takes the sound of a consonant then it will have the prefix as "a" before it. When that silent letter is a vowel then the word will take the sound of the second letter. For example: "a one-day match".Ĭase 3: There are several English words for which the first letter will be silent.
So "one" will not have the prefix "an" instead it will have "a". For example the English letter ‘u’ sometimes take the sound "ah" and sometimes "yoo".Ĭase 2: In case of the word one, the first letter is taking the sound of "wa" which is not a vowel sound. Words begin with a vowel but not using "an" before it.Ĭase 1: Few of English vowels take two sounds. It is totally depends on the sound of the first letter, i.e., whether it is taking the sound of a vowel or a consonant.ġ. It has to come before a vowel or a consonant. This rule is applicable in most of the situations.īut in some cases the word “an” is used before consonant and at the same time the word “a” is used before a vowel.īecause, the actual usage of "a" and "an" in English is not related to whether, The general rule is that, “an” is to be used before a vowel and “a” is to be
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